Olympics: The Final Victor

American athletes struck gold at the Summer
Olympics, but the real winner was the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing
Committee, which put together the Games. The L.A.O.O.C. last week
proudly announced that stronger than expected ticket sales had helped
produce a $150 million surplus, ten times the $15 million profit
forecast last fall even before a Soviet-led boycott threatened the
success of the Games. Quipped Committee President Peter Ueberroth: "We
only missed by a zero."

Near capacity crowds throughout the two-week Games were matched by
record television audiences; as a result, ABC paid the full $225
million agreed upon for U.S. broadcast...